Agriculture revolutions

Question 1

Start

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Farming started in the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia) around 11,000 years ago. {Hearth for the 1st Agricultural Revolution}.

Question 2

Ancient Civilization

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Centered along {Hearth}
Crops & Animals in the Region

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Mesopotamia

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Fertile Crescent, in between the Tigris & Euphrates Rivers

Barley, Oats, Wheat, Olives, Cattle, Pigs, Goat

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Egypt

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-Nile River Valley

-Lentils (beans), cattle, sheep

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India

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Indus River Valley

Walnut, Broad bean, Wheat, Cotton, sheep, pigs

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Southeast Asia: China & Korea

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Yangtze & Yellow Rivers

Rice, millet, Coconut, Mango
MesoAmerica

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MesoAmerica

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-Mexico & Central America

• Peru

-Pepper, potato, alpaca, cotton, maize, sweet potato

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First Agricultural Revolution

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-Start of Neolithic time period.

Learn about seeds & domestication of animals. Spreads from Central Asia all across Eurasia.

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`2nd Agricultural Revolution

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-Started in England.

-Lasted from 16th to 19th Centuries.

-before the Industrial Revolution.

• number of changes & innovations to how food was produced & consumed.

Enclosure Movement = in England when small farms were consolidated into larger farms. This allowed for more output of food & pushed people to urban areas. This equaled more food for society & a population boom.

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Impact of 2nd agriculturial revolution

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Social
People leaving their rural lifestyles & moving to urban areas.

Working in Factories increased

• ## Overcrowding in cities & concerns for workers rightsEconomic
  -Less farmers needed

-More people started to work in other industries

-Rise of urbanization

• ## Increase in jobs , products & productionHealth
  -Cities become overcrowded

-diffusion of new diseases

-poor sanitation& lack of knowledge on healthcare

-Work condition lacking safety measures to protect workers

-people had healthier, more nutritious diets & longer life expectancy.

Question 11

Green Revolution

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• New inventions rapidly diffusing

-New productive agricultural techniques to be used. T

-Introduction of new higher-yield seeds & the expanded use of fertilizers.

-mid-1900s, mainly in developing countries/regions: Latin America, Asia, Africa (Mexico, India, Pakistan).

-Introduction of high-yield varieties of crops, the use of irrigation, & the application of chemical fertilizers & pesticides.

-Increased food production (

-improved living standards, & economic growth,

-globalization (w/ more trade of food).

-Environmental degradation,

-Displacement of small-scale farmers,
loss of biodiversity.

-Decrease in family farms & possible increase in food contamination.

-GMOs (Genetically modified Organisms)